Car-body.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. EMERICK, OF OSAIATOMIE, KANSAS, AND PETER ALQUIST, OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.

CAR-BODY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 1, 1906.

Application led January 6, 1906. Serial No. 294,849.,

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that we, VILLIAM H. EMERIOK, residing in Osawatomie, in the county of Miami, in the State of Kansas, and PETER AL- QUIsT, residing in Memphis, in the county of Shelby, in the State of Tennessee, citizens of the United States, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Car-Bodies, of which the following is a specification,

Our invention relates to improvements in carbodies, and more' particularly to the framework of the car-body and the means for connecting posts and sills or other frametimbers.

The object of our invention is to provide a car-body frame of a strong, simple, efiicient, and durable construction in which the postsb and sills or otherframe members may be very strongly, rigidly, and efi'ectually connected together and whereby at the same time the posts or superstructure may be easily and conveniently connected and disconnected from the horizontal frame or sill work of the carbody when desired or required for repair or replacement or other purposes.

Our invention consists in the means we emi ploy to practically accomplish this object or result-that is to say, it consists, in connection with the horizontal framework or sills of the car-body and the posts or uprights memb'ers,- of connecting-plates secured, respectively, to the horizontal framework or sills and to the upright frame members or posts and furnished with dovetail grooves on their meeting faces and a removable dovetail key fitting in the dovetail grooves of the connecting-plates and serving to rigidly and firmly connect together these connecting-plates and the frame mcmbcrs to which they are respectively secured.

It further consists in providing the connecting-plates and dovf'etail key with registering slots to receive and cooperate with the tie-rod .which is combined with these parts.

It further consists in the novel construction of parts and devices and in the novel combination of parts and devices herein shown and described.

y In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a front elevation showing a portion of a car-body embodying our invention. Fig. 2 is a her1- zontal section on line2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig isa detail vertical section on line 3 3 of Fig. 2, and Fig. et is a detail vertical section on line 4 4 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 illustrates a modification.

In the drawings, A A represent the center sills, B the end sill, and C C the )ost/s or upright frame members, of a carody frame embodying our invention.

D D are connecting-plates'secured to the sills or horizontal framework of the car, and F F are connectingplates secured to the )osts or upright members of the ear-frame.

he connecting-plates D are secured to the car-sills by bolts d, the heads d of which it in eountersunkl recesses d2 in t e connectingplates D. The connecting-pl tes. D are also preferably furnished with integral bosses or projections d3, which iit in corresponding recesses b of the sill or horizontal framework.

of the car to more securely fix the connecting-plates D firmly and rigidly in place thereon. 'Ihe connectinU-plates F are each furnished with upwardly-projecting flanges f, forming sockets f to receive the lower ends of the posts C, and thus firmly and rigidly confine the posts from horizontal movement in any direction in respect to the connectingplates F. The connecting-plates F and D are provided on their meeting faces with dovetail recesses or Grooves (Pfg, in which fit a removable dovetai key G, the key being of a double-dovetail form, its dovetall g ittmg in the dovetail d5 of the. connecting-plate and its dovetail g fitting in the dovetailf2 of the connecting-plate F. The double-dovetail key G when forced into place in the dovetails of the connecting-plates thus serves to rigidly and firmly and at the same time removably secure together the connectingplates D and F and the car-frame members -G in pllace and prevent its slipping out, it is provided with a screw or bolt g3, which extends through a hole in the key and is se- IOO cured to the horizontal sill or fram the car. By this means the pests structure of the framework or thus very strongly, firmly, and nected with the sills orherizcn; and at the same time adapted and quickly removed and repl, o whenever desired or required. The regis-.vering slots c grooves of the connecting-plates and key and the tie-rods are on opposite sides et' the posts C C, so that the tie-rods, while not interfering with the removal of the keys, will coac't together in preventing horizontal movement of the posts in respect to the horizontal` sills or framework of the car-body.

While our connecting plates for vremovably securing together the frame members or' a car-body are specially designed and adapted for use for removably connecting the upright posts with the sills, the saine may be used for removably connecting other parts.

ln cases where a frame member as, for example, the upright post made voi metal, as illustrated in Fig. 5, the connectingplate F may be cast integral therewith, it desired, the lower end 'of the post being v suitably grooved to receive the removable lecking-key We claim- 1. In a car-frame, the combination with the sills or horizontal framework, of the posts or upright framework, connecting-plates secured to the horizontal sills or framework, connecting-plates having sockets for receiving the posts or upright frame members, said connecting plates being provided on their meeting faces with dovetail grooves, a doubledovetail key fitting in the dovetail grooves vof the connecting-plates for removably securing the same together, said connecting plates and key being provided with registering upright grooves or slots and tie-rods fitting in said grooves or slots of the connecting-plates and key, substantially as specified. f

2.111 a car-frame, the combination with the horizontal and upright frame members, of connecting plates furnished with dovetails on their meeting faces and a removable locking-key for removably securing the connecting plates together, substantially as speciiied.'

3. In a car-frame, the combination with Athe horizontal and upright frame members,

of connecting plates furnished with dovetails on their meeting faces and a removable dovetail key for removably securing the connecting-plates together, and a tie-rod, the

'Emerickz connesting-plates having registering slots to the e red, substantially as specified'. in a car-frame, the combination. with horizontal and upright frame members,

inactingpiates furnished with doveon th meeting faces and a removable for re rlovably securing the conher, and a tie-rod, the plates having registering slots to the tiered, and the key being also provided with a registering slot to receive the tierod, substantially as specified.

5. in a card'ra'me, the combination with the horizontal and upright frame members, i connect" -plates furnished with dovecting faces and a removable removably securing the conng--plates together, and a tie-rod, the connecting-plates having registering slotsto l bolt or screw for substantially as lli receive the tie-rod, ar holding the key in p specified T he combi tion with two trame menibers, oi a pair or connecting-plates, one'iurnished h a socket to receive one of the irame members, and both provided with dovetaiison their meeting faces, and a removable double-dovetail key, substantially as speciiied.

7. The combination with two frame members, of a pairwof connecting-plates, one furnished with a socket to receive one ofthe frame members, and beth provided with dovetails on their meeting faces, a removable doubladovetail key, and a tiered, said connecting plates and key having registeringl slots to receive the tie-rod, substantially as specified. y Y

8. The combinatipn with two frame members, of a pair of connecting-plates, one furnished with'a socket to receive one of the frame members, and both provided with dovetails on their meeting faces, cfa removable double-dovetail key, and a tie-rod, said connecting-plates' and key having registering slots to receive the tie-rod, and meansfor holding the key in place, substantially as specified.

VILLIAM H'. EMERICK. PETER ALQUST. Witnesses to the signature oi "William H.

ALLEN BARNES, J. W. ANDERSON.

' Vilitnesses tothe signature of leter'Alquist;

J. F. W'Rionr, JAMES B. NORTON. 

